Matcha Green tea chocolate swirl cake

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Posted by Kirbie / 8 comments » / Cakes, Matcha green tea

I love matcha green tea flavored foods. I'm always choosing the green tea flavored cakes, ice cream, candy, cookies, drinks, etc. However, it wasn't until recently that I discovered how easily it is to bake with matcha green tea and make my own matcha green tea flavored desserts.

While browsing food pictures, I found this chocolate matcha bundt cake recipe from Bakerella. The recipe looked so simple, I had to try it.

Chocolate Mixture
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt

Matcha mixture
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2-3 Tbsp matcha powder
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Wet ingredients
3 cups sugar
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3 eggs, room temperature
1 3/4 cup milk, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Grease and flour (or cocoa) a 10 or 12 cup Bundt pan.
With a wire whisk, mix the dry ingredients for the chocolate mixture in a small bowl and set aside.
In another small bowl, do the same for the matcha mixture.
Using a mixer, cream the butter and sugar. Add the eggs, milk and vanilla and mix until thoroughly combined.
Divide the creamed mixture evenly in two separate bowls.
Slowly add the chocolate mixture to one half of the creamed mixture and mix thoroughly.
Then, add the matcha mixture to the other half of the creamed mixture and mix thoroughly.
Drop alternating spoonfuls of each mixture into the bundt pan until it's about 3/4 full.
For a marbled effect, gently run a knife through the two batters in a swirling motion. (Once or twice will do the trick.)
Bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

I followed this recipe exactly as written. The cake came out very pretty, though it was very dense, and hard to get out of the bundt mold. Usually I don't have a problem, but this time my cake stuck to the mold.

I think it still came out looking pretty though even though part of it stuck in the pan. If I were to present it, I would have needed some icing or something though. I love the swirls of dark green with the chocolate.

Taste-wise, the cake was just okay for me. Very dense and a little dry. I was also a little chewy, almost like a fudgy brownie. The green tea flavor definitely was there. Next time I will try another cake recipe. I've had a hard time finding a moist cake recipe made from scratch. But now that I know how easily it is to make things matcha flavored, the possibilities are endless! I plan on making matcha green tea cupcakes, cookies, mochi, etc! I don't know why I never thought to just add some matcha green tea powder to a baking mixture to give it the matcha green tea taste.